The Difference Between Domestic And Foreign Cotton Prices Is Widening, Which Makes It Difficult To Reduce The Operating Pressure Of The Textile Industry

Since 2012, spin The slowdown of industrial economic growth continues, and the growth rate of major economic indicators is significantly lower than that of the same period last year. Among them, because the domestic cotton price continues to be higher than the international market, the market competitiveness of China's cotton textile and clothing products has been seriously weakened, the export has slowed down significantly, and the enterprise benefits have declined significantly. It is expected that the operating pressure of the textile industry throughout the year will be difficult to weaken.

In response, Wang Tiankai, president of the China Textile Industry Federation, pointed out that the continuous widening of the cotton price gap at home and abroad must attract the attention of all relevant departments and be solved as soon as possible. "If the difference between the domestic cotton price and the foreign cotton price can be controlled within a reasonable range, it will not be a problem for the textile industry to maintain a moderate growth in exports and domestic sales this year." On the contrary, if the cotton price difference that continues to widen cannot be effectively resolved as soon as possible, it will seriously weaken the competitiveness of China's textile industry and ultimately affect the entire industrial chain. He called on all parties to take a responsible attitude and solve this persistent disease that concerns the life and death of the entire industry as soon as possible.

　　 The problem of tighter environment must be faced

As the chairman of the industry federation, Wang Tiankai said frankly that he must face the adverse situation. The downturn in international market demand has continued, leading to a sharp decline in China's textile and clothing exports. According to customs data, from January to April this year, China exported 68.814 billion dollars of textiles and clothing, a year-on-year increase of only 0.48%, of which textile exports declined 0.26% year on year, and clothing exports increased 1.02% year on year. After deducting price increases, the actual export volume of the industry showed a negative growth trend, which has a great impact on the textile industry, which is highly dependent on foreign countries.

According to the statistics bureau, from January to March, textile clothing The retail sales increased by only 14.6% year on year, 0.2 percentage points lower than the growth rate of the total retail sales of consumer goods in the same period. This is a rare situation in the past four years. Although the above proportion rose to 15.6% from January to April, the actual growth rate of retail sales was only 11.6% after deducting the price factor. In recent years, the growth rate of the total amount of domestic clothing consumer goods has always been higher than the total amount of social retail consumer goods, and this year saw a turning point at the beginning. Wang Tiankai believes that this issue should be given high attention. In addition to market factors, there will also be price factors. The fluctuation of cotton prices last year also promoted the rise of textile prices. This is also an issue that must be concerned by all parties.

　　 The gap between internal and external cotton prices is widening, which makes unfair competition worse

"In addition to the overall environment, cotton is crucial to the textile industry." Wang Tiankai said that the continuous expansion of the cotton price gap at home and abroad is a prominent problem facing the current textile industry. Before September 2011, the difference between the domestic cotton price and the international market price was roughly in the normal range. Since September last year, the international market cotton price has been separated from the domestic market cotton price. The price difference rose from more than 1000 yuan per ton. By May 11, the price of 328 cotton in China was 19294 yuan per ton, while the international cotton price was only 14383 yuan per ton. The price of cotton in the international market was 4911 yuan per ton lower than that in the domestic market. According to the analysis of the international and domestic price difference in recent years by the China Textile Association, the current price difference is unprecedented in many years.

The high price of raw materials has seriously weakened the international competitiveness of China's cotton textile industry chain. At present, China's export of cotton products has a negative overall growth. From January to March, the export of cotton yarn has declined by 46.82% year on year, the export of cotton products has declined by 6.78%, the export of cotton bedding has declined by 12.19%, and the export of cotton clothing has declined by 1.82%.

Under the pressure of high price difference and limited import quota of cotton, many domestic enterprises have begun to import large quantities of cotton in order to survive Cotton yarn ——Imported cotton yarn is even cheaper than domestic cotton, which is obviously far from the original intention of domestic policy makers to stabilize domestic cotton production.

As a highly competitive industry, if the resources of the domestic and international markets are separated, the competitiveness of the textile industry will inevitably decline, which will eventually affect the entire industrial chain, including the production of cotton at the front of the industrial chain. Therefore, the formulation of policies must be based on the overall situation, instead of focusing on one end and losing the other. Therefore, Wang Tiankai stressed that the international and domestic cotton prices must be taken into account when formulating the policy of releasing and storing cotton, so as to limit the price and store cotton.

　　 Accelerate structural adjustment, take a long-term view and solve the fundamental problems

Wang Tiankai believes that in the current tight international and domestic environment, it is an urgent task for the whole industry to strengthen structural adjustment, that is, to speed up product restructuring and technological innovation, and to strengthen self management to reduce costs. The China Textile Federation will hold a council in the middle of the year to discuss where the focus of the textile industry is and how to keep stability while making progress in the current macro environment.

"In fact, one thing we have been doing for a long time in the textile industry is to minimize the dependence of the entire industry chain on cotton by various means," Wang Tiankai said frankly. For this reason, a major task of the chemical fiber industry long ago was to accelerate the development of highly imitated cotton to replace cotton. In fact, many enterprises are increasing the use of chemical fiber and reducing the use of cotton. Previously, many enterprises used 6535 in the proportion of cotton to chemical fiber, that is, 65% cotton and 35% chemical fiber. Slowly, this proportion has become 5050, and now it is even 4060. There is little difference between the products made through technological innovation and the original products. "This is a product structure adjustment. We need to strengthen scientific and technological development and structure adjustment in the whole industry."

The reporter learned that increasing hemp textile and bamboo fibre In addition to hemp textile and bamboo fiber having their own advantages - antibacterial and deodorant, etc., there is also a very important point because they are the closest natural fibers to cotton and the most alternative textile materials. This shows the efforts made by the textile industry to reduce its dependence on cotton. But in fact, this itself seems to be a paradox: the textile industry should jump out of dependence on cotton! From then on, it can also be seen that the irrational rise and fall of cotton has hurt the industry to the point where people love and hate each other.

In view of the current domestic and foreign cotton The excessive price difference has caused serious difficulties in the textile industry. The reporter learned that the textile industry has made suggestions including reducing the price difference between domestic and foreign cotton, accelerating the reform of cotton circulation system, improving the cotton tax system, and increasing the tax rebate rate of textile and clothing exports through the representatives of the NPC and CPPCC.

1、 Pay close attention to the study of the national cotton storage plan, adopt financial subsidies for storage and management costs, implement price limits for storage, stabilize domestic cotton prices, and control the price difference between domestic and foreign cotton within a reasonable range. "We still have an international competitive advantage when the price difference is within 1500 yuan, and it is difficult to exceed this category," said Wang Tiankai. Recently, the country has begun to issue cotton import quotas to textile enterprises, which is expected to play a positive role in reducing the price difference between domestic and foreign cotton. It is suggested to increase the distribution of cotton import quotas to textile enterprises, and further tilt the quotas to textile production enterprises.

2、 We will improve the national cotton macro-control mechanism, deepen the reform of the cotton circulation system, increase the number of cotton imports year by year, until the double management restrictions of cotton import quotas and sliding tax are lifted, so as to realize the market connection between domestic and foreign cotton prices, and play the role of market mechanism in regulating cotton prices.

3、 Study and solve the problem of "high tax deduction" in cotton and other natural fiber processing industries as soon as possible (17% of output tax and 13% of input tax deduction), include textile raw materials in the pilot scope of the Administrative Measures of the State Administration of Taxation on the Verification and Deduction of Input Tax of Agricultural Products Value Added Tax on Trial Industry, and increase the input tax rate of natural fiber raw materials from 13% to 17%, Solve the problem of unreasonable tax burden of textile enterprises.

4、 In view of the high cotton price at home and abroad, international Market demand is declining, international competition is intensifying, and the situation of export enterprises is grim. In order to curb the decline in exports, it is suggested to adjust the export tax rebate rate of textiles and clothing from 16% to 17%. If it is difficult to comprehensively increase the tax rebate rate of textiles and clothing, it is suggested to adjust the export tax rebate rate of cotton textiles and clothing to 17% to reduce the international competitiveness of cotton textile enterprises.